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...helpless with Latin. And he still needs work on waiting out his applause. But Thursday night, in front of the U.S. Congress and the nation, eight months to the day after he took office following an election that was pretty dark itself, Bush delivered the finest, strongest, clearest, several-times-chill-giving speech of his life. Here...
...wouldn?t have considered for one moment seeming less mature or intelligent than he was. He didn?t play to the groundlings; he figured they would climb up to meet him. He and Houseman would fool them into think-ing enlightenment was entertainment. This tendency to edify enchantingly was clearest in the author sketches with which Welles often introduced the evening?s story. Note the confident scholarship - the mixture of history and an-ecdote, the oral eyebrow raised at "establishments," the almost sexual acceleration of subsidiary phrases, the assumption that listeners will know who Reubens...
...became so codified that by 1959 a comedy duo, Arbogast and Ross, could produce a canny satire of the format, complete with frothing DJs, helicopter traffic reports, gag commercials aimed at teens who feel excluded because they don't have zits ("Pimple-On! Adds blotches and blemishes to the clearest of skin!") and, amid all the aural clutter, an occasional song. It would last about four seconds before the DJ ramped up his rant...
...Anthropology and myth, clearest in the stories of Always Coming Home, play a part in nearly all of Le Guin's work. Her interest in both writing and anthropology can be traced to her family. She grew up in a household with a famous anthropologist father, Alfred L. Kroeber, and a successful writing mother, Theodora Kracaw Kroeber, whose most famous work, _Ishi, Last of His Tribe_, dealt with indigenous American Indians...
...such an effective gauge? Because it's the clearest evidence that money is getting increasingly scarce. Yet few people took the sign very seriously...